When the ceramic membrane is used to trea t micro -sized inorganic particle suspensions in the microfiltration process, the bigg est problem is that the membrane could be fouled easily .The technique of backflushing is a stable , valid and reusable method to control the membrane fouling in the microfiltration which is demonstrated by a lot of experiments.The investitation was made for the use of backflushing to control membrane fouling in recovering molecular sieve particles by ceramic microfiltration membrane .The influences of backflushing pressure, backflushing time , backflushing interval on the backflushing were studied .The most important factor affecting the recov erflux is backflushing pressure , backflushing time and backflushing interval have slight influence o n reco ver flux .Considering synthetically the influence of pressure proof , energy consume and investment of the equipments , the satisfied backflushing opera tio n parameters are determined:backflushingpressure is 0.4 MPa, backflushing time is 3 second.Based on engineering situation , the effective rate of permeate flux was taken as investigation object of the membrane system .The optimum backflushing interval is determined, which is 10 minutes , w hen the value of the rate of permea te flux arrives a t the maximum .
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